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unusual facts about Lerma, State of Mexico



Adrián Luis González

González lives and works in Metepec, State of Mexico, a town noted for its decorative pottery, especially Trees of Life and suns with faces as wall decorations.

Arnie Lerma

Lerma was the first person to post the court document known as the Fishman Affidavit, including the Xenu story, to the internet via the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology.

Avenida Río San Joaquín

Avenida Río San Joaquín is an elevated freeway in Mexico City extending from the Anillo Periférico beltway just outside the Mexican Federal District in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, in the west, to Avenida General Mariano Escobedo, in the east, at the juncture of the Polanco, Nuevo Polanco (Colonia Granada), and Anzures areas, continuing eastwards as Avenida Ejercito Nacional towards the Circuito Interior.

Barbacoa

The large food court of the tianguis (public market) of Chiconcuac in the state of Mexico, outside of Mexico City, seats hundreds of diners who are served barbacoa de borrego (mutton barbecue) and other regional specialties by dozens of open-air restaurants.

Churrigueresque

The altarpiece of the church of San Francisco Javier (National Museum of Viceroyalty) in Tepotzotlán, State of Mexico, is also considered, along with its facade, one of the most important baroque churrigueresque works performed by the Jesuits in New Spain.

Clásico Mexiquense

The Clasico mexiquense is a derby match at the State of Mexico between Club Deportivo Toluca and Toros Neza, whose origin lies in the rivalry that existed between Deportivo Toluca and Club Deportivo Coyotes Neza in the early 70s as both Mexico State teams.

Distrito Federal Trios Championship

The title was created in 1986 and is controlled by the "Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F." (Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission), which regulates all matches where the title is defended, allowing it to only be defended in Mexico City and the State of Mexico.

Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma

Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma is a 1603 portrait of Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma by Rubens, now in the Prado in Madrid.

Ferrocarril Central Norte

The first section of the line to Chile via Socompa from Empalme Cerrillos to Rosario de Lerma was completed on 27 August 1907.

Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro

The Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro (also known as the Festival de Avándaro) was a historic Mexican rock concert held on 11 September 1971 on the shores of Lake Avándaro in the central Mexican state of Mexico.

Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma

In the end, Lerma was deposed by a palace intrigue carried out by his own son, Cristóbal de Sandoval, Duke of Uceda, manipulated by Olivares.

Young Mikhail Lermontov associated his surname with Lerma's title, which is an obvious fiction; even the family legend traced back the name to Thomas Learmonth the Rhymer from Scotland, but not to Lerma.

Huixquilucan de Degollado

It borders (counter-clockwise from north) the municipalities of Naucalpan, Lerma, Ocoyoacac, and the boroughs of Cuajimalpa and Miguel Hidalgo of the Distrito Federal (Mexico City).

International Wrestling Revolution Group

International Wrestling Revolution Group (Grupo Internacional Revolución in Spanish) is a Lucha Libre promotion based in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, Mexico.

Javier Lozano Barragán

Born in Toluca, State of México, Lozano Barragán trained as a priest in Zamora, Michoacán, and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he earned a doctorate in theology and was ordained in 1955.

Juan Buenaventura de Borja y Armendía

He was conferred with the honor of being a Knight of the Order of Santiago by royal warrant at the city of Lerma on 22 May 1610.

Juan Núñez III de Lara

Shortly thereafter, Don Juan Manuel and Juan Núñez de Lara began to make war on Alfonso XI, Don Juan Manuel from his Castle of Peñafiel and Juan Núñez de Lara from the city of Lerma.

Juan Pantoja de la Cruz

He was primarily a portrait painter to the royal family, (whom he accompanied on journeys to Valladolid, Burgos, Lerma and the Escorial), and to the higher aristocracy.

Laura Mendez

Laura María Luisa Elena Méndez Lefort was born on Thursday, 18 August 1853 in the Hacienda de Tamariz, Amecameca, State of Mexico.

Lerma, State of Mexico

Businesses here produce processed foods, textiles, metals, automobiles and chemical products, by companies suich as Avcomex, Diconsa, Bayer, Barcel and Unilever.

Luis de Aliaga Martínez

Lerma soon had Aliaga appointed confessor to the king (a position that had been previously been held by Diego Mardones, a member of the Franciscan Order, who became Bishop of Córdoba).

Luis Y. Aragón

In 1975, he created various sculpted murals for the State of Mexico including Los Tlacuilos, a sculpture/mural 600m2 and weighing 1000 tons in the center of Naucalpan.

Manuel Cavazos Lerma

The cousin of the ex-governor, Gilberto Lerma Plata, was arrested in the McAllen–Hidalgo–Reynosa International Bridge on 12 April 2012 by federal agents for alleged drug conspiracy.

Manuel Mariano Martínez

Manuel Mariano Martínez (born March 6, 1992 in Tlalnepantla de Baz, México, Mexico) is an undefeated Mexican professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division.

Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares

The Arbol de la Vida, or Tree of Life, is a fired clay sculpture mostly associated with Metepec, State of Mexico.

Neustädter Kirche, Hannover

One model is the organ from the 17th century of the Iglesia Colegial in Lerma close to Burgos, other models are in churches in Covarrubias and in Liétor.

Nuestra Belleza Estado de México 2012

Nuestra Belleza Estado de México 2012, was held at Mambocafé of Metepec, Estado de México on July 14, 2012.

Oleada

The music video was directed by Valdés & Chicle and recorded in National Park Insurgente Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (La Marquesa), State of Mexico.

Pablo César Cano

Pablo César Cano García (born October 4, 1989, in Tlalnepantla, México, Mexico), is a Mexican professional boxer and the interim WBA World Light Welterweight Champion.

Psilocybe muliercula

Unable to locate this species in the field, botanist Roger Heim and mycologist Rolf Singer based their descriptions of this mushroom on dried specimens purchased from Matlatzinca Indians in the marketplace of Tenango del Valle, in the Nevado de Toluca region of the state of Mexico.

Quechquemitl

The garment is found mostly in central Mexico among indigenous women such as the Huastecs, Nahuas, Tepehuas, Otomis, Totonacs, Mazahuas, Pames and Huichols in states such as Nayarit, Jalisco, Querétaro, the State of Mexico, Hidalgo, Puebla and Veracruz.

Ríos de Misericordia

Ríos de Misericordia ("Rivers of Mercy"), also known as Niños Ríos de Misericordia ("Rivers of Mercy Children") is a Mexican Christian musical group composed of eight children from the children's shelter of the same name in Zacango, Acolman Municipality, State of Mexico.

Sergio Rubio

Sergio Rubio Ríos (born November 27, 1956 in San Juan Teotihuacán, State of Mexico), is a Mexican football manager and former defender.

Tawny deer mouse

It is found from Jalisco in the north, along the coast to the northernmost parts of Guerrero in the south, and also inland in Michoacán and the west of the State of Mexico.

Volkswagen Beetle in Mexico

The next year, 1962, the first Volkswagen assembly plant was established in Xalostoc, State of Mexico, under the name PROMEXA (Promotora Mexicana de Automóviles - Mexican Automobile Promotor).

Water resources in Mexico

Also in 1989 the first Basin Council in LermaChapala was created, incorporating water users from multiple sectors.

Yurécuaro

It limits to the north with the state of Jalisco separated by the Lerma river, at west with La Piedad, at south with Ecuandureo and to the southeast with Tanhuato.


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